And if you ask. ‘How is Nibbāṇa to be known?’ It is by freedom from distress and danger, by confidence, by peace, by calm, by bliss, by happiness, by delicacy, by purity, by freshness…
Ananda Maitriya (Allan Bennett), Nibbāṇa
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The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)
“Self-seeking for the brute,—for Man the Sacrifice of Self; the world’s thrones for the weak and foolish,—Self-empire for the Strong and Wise; Hatred grown into Love, and all the darkness of Ignorance illumined by the Light of Lights, which is the Law of Uttermost Compassion:—thus shall it be on earth when the Great Law shall have at last worked out the Destiny of Man” [via]
The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)
“a system of ethics founded on a reasoned argument from the known facts of life to what must surely follow, if the universal laws we see in operation in the world about us shall continue to hold good also in the Kingdom of the Mind.” [via]
The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)
“that which is to-day but an ideal and an aspiration, will, if the Conservation of Energy hold good in the noetic world, as we believe it does, to-morrow have blossomed in a life wherein these things are hopes and dreams no longer; but part of the very fact and nature of the Universe” [via]
The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)
“Because you have so augmented the evil your nature, because you have increased its Hatred and its Self-delusion, you have damaged yourself far more than all the violence of pain or death could hurt your victim, for there is no greater suffering than Ignorance, and it is the Ignorance of byegone lives which is the chiefest cause of whatsoever suffering we now endure.” [via]
The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)
“‘evil’ for the Buddhist is that which brings suffering in its train; and how the world we live in, and the destiny we bear,—its meed of pleasure and of pain,—is made in the greater part of the mental Doing we inherit; just as the world a man inhabits in his dreaming is component in the main of the thoughts and actions of his daily life.” [via]
“Each one of these prohibitions is the application in our human lives of some great Law of nature,-of some Law that governs in the Mental World as surely as does gravitation in the physical universe; and the whole might be described as a system of mental hygiene”
The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)
“Each one of these prohibitions is the application in our human lives of some great Law of nature,—of some Law that governs in the Mental World as surely as does gravitation in the physical universe; and the whole might be described as a system of mental hygiene” [via]
“as might be expecteced in a Religion where Theology and Pneumatology play no part, Ethics takes in it the foremost place”
The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)
“as might be expecteced in a Religion where Theology and Pneumatology play no part, Ethics takes in it the foremost place” [via]
“Good is that which brings us nearer to Release”
The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)
“Good is that which brings us nearer to Release” [via]
“It is the darkest hour in all the evolution of a man, this realisation that the Self that he has striven to perfect and work for is no more than a delusion;-but it is also the darkest hour which goes before the dawn;-for soon that darkness passes, giving way to the light of a deeper and surer Wisdom”
The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)
“It is the darkest hour in all the evolution of a man, this realisation that the Self that he has striven to perfect and work for is no more than a delusion;—but it is also the darkest hour which goes before the dawn;—for soon that darkness passes, giving way to the light of a deeper and surer Wisdom” [via]